Los Angeles

Transportation

Twenty-eight by '28 initiative: transportation infrastructure projects before the start of the 2028 Summer Olympics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-eight_by_%2728

Metro Rail

Official website: https://www.metro.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Metro_Rail

• Crenshaw/LAX Line opens in Summer 2022
• LAX people mover: 2023
• extension from Union Station to Arts District https://www.metro.net/projects/arts-dist-6th-station/, close to Greyhound terminal

Commuter Rail

Metrolink:

• 8 Lines, operated by Amtrak, 6 lines end at L.A. Union Station.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrolink_(California)
• Arrow: a 9-mile (14 km) eastward rail extension from San Bernardino to Redlands.

Air

Airports:

• LAX: hub of all big 3 airlines
• SNA: short runway, 1,738 m, no wide-body passenger jetliners. ~10M PAX
• BUR: ~5M PAX
• ONT: ~5M PAX
• LGB: ~3M PAX

Airlines:

• Southwest: the largest in SNA, ONT, BUR, LGB
• Frontier: ONT/BUR; exit LAX
• Avelo: BUR
• jetBlue moved from LGB to LAX

Others

A new Cucamonga Station (opens 2026) for:

• Brightline West: extend Las Vegas to Victorville high-speed rail to the new Rancho Cucamonga station. To Las Vegas in about two hours.
• Omnitrans West Valley Connector BRT
• The Boring Co.: An underground tunnel to and from Ontario International Airport.

Film Studio Tours

• Walt Disney Studios
  • https://www.waltdisneystudios.com/
  • 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA 91505
• Warner Bros. Studio
  • https://www.wbstudiotour.com/
  • 3400 Warner Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
• Universal Studio (Comcast)
  • https://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/
  • 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608
• Sony Pictures Studio Tour
  • https://www.sonypicturesstudiostours.com/
  • 10202 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232
• Paramount Pictures (Viacom)
  • http://www.paramountstudiotour.com/
  • 5515 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038

Others

• Autry National Center.
• Vasques Rocks
• Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Santa Monica
• Griffith Observatory
• UCLA
• Malibu
• Orange County John Wayne Airport: John Wayne Statue
• Orange County walk along Newport Beach & Balboa Island & Crystal Coast
• Long Beach: Queen Mary
• Huntington Beach: surfing
• Malibu beach
• Santa Monica Pier
• Venice Beach
• Laguna Beach
• Newport Beach
• Griffith

Skid Row

Skid Row, a.k.a. Central City East, a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, with one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the US. If you ride a Greyhound bus to LA and walks from the terminal to downtown, you will walk pass Skid Row.

Santa Monica Mountains

King Gillette Ranch

588-acre, situated in the heart of the Malibu Creek Watershed, adjacent to Malibu Creek State Park, at the lower end of the Las Virgenes Valley, a haven for large mammals; some structures designed for razor magnate King C. Gillette in the 1920's by Wallace Neff, architect of California's Golden Age. Includes Gillette's historic Spanish Colonial Revival style mansion, a long tree-lined allee and grand entry, a large constructed pond, a formal courtyard and terrace, bridges and lawns, a knoll known as Inspiration Point, with 360-degree views, including the famous rock formations of Malibu Creek State Park

Visitor Center: formerly the horse stable; Awarded LEED Platinum cerficiation and is the first "net zero" visitor center in the National Park Service

1-mil round trip hike to Inspiration Point; amazing vista of the surrounding Las Virgenes Valley

Mansion: 25-room mansion built in 1928 as the primary residence of the founder of the Gillette Safety Razor Company. Hollywood movie director Clarence brown purchased the property in 1935 and added a pool, tennis courts and an airplane landing strip. The ranch became public parkland in 2005

Dormitory Building: the Claretian religious order purchased the ranch in 1952 and built the 3-story seminary building, which included a dormitory, classrooms and a chapel in 1955